Welcome, Angela. I like your comment, "to accept what I always believed." It was much like that for me, too. It never made sense so I spent much of my life trying to prove there was a god and thus proved there wasn't. I live in the south, too, so know what you are up against in Alabama. I look forward to your comments.

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